Hi Branden, On 1/6/23 08:16, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Where did this idea of separating it in synopses come from? Maybe logic thinking, such as placing the period outside of quotes...My _guess_ as to the _reason_ is as I said earlier--to reinforce the idea that the optional arguments are whitespace-separated. As for where it came from, the strongest historical claim I can readily make is that it appears in the earliest Unix man pages for which we have hard copy. So that would be the ar(I) page in the (First Edition) Unix Programmer's Manual, dated 3 November 1971. (Image attached.)
Interesting.
So, I guess I'll pick that patch. I'll tell you if I do.When you've reported one as applied, should I drop it from my further revisions of the patch group?
Yes. When I report that I applied a patch, it means that I applied it to my main branch, and that it will imminently be pushed to the master branch at kernel.org. Some times it is immediate, and some times I delay it for a few hours or days, if I have patches that concern me in the branch.
I pushed my main branch to my own remote so that you can rebase on top of that (if I later remove the bzero patch from there, it shouldn't create any conflicts to your patches).
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/> <git://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git>
Regards, Branden
Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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